Policy Options

One of the most anachronistic and paternalistic aspects of the Indian Act could finally come to an end in large part when amendments are made to the First Nations...

Le 24 octobre 2018, le Protecteur du citoyen du Québec publiait un rapport faisant état d’importantes lacunes dans les services éducatifs reçus par les Inuits du Nunavik. Afin d’assurer...

Auparavant, les saumons remontaient le fleuve Columbia, depuis l’océan Pacifique près d’Astoria, en Oregon, jusqu’aux montagnes Rocheuses canadiennes, à la source du fleuve à Canal Flats, en Colombie-Britannique. C’était...

Post-secondary education is the gateway for young people to access — and create — opportunities in our rapidly changing world. In Canada, we believe everyone should have the tools...

In September, at a national forum hosted by the Assembly of First Nations, a number of First Nations chiefs expressed their opposition to the federal government’s Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework. In...

The next federal election is a year away, and our policy conversations are starting to shift with the campaign in mind. Renewing the nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous peoples was...

Colten Boushie was Cree. He was a member of Red Pheasant First Nation and lived in Treaty 6 territory, but we did not see Cree legal principles applied in...

When the verdict was handed down in the Gerald Stanley trial, it immediately seemed to me to be wrong on the law. I had trouble making sense of how...

There is much to learn from the trial of Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley on the dangers of not directly confronting the potential impact of racial bias on the trial...

To many observers, the verdict in the Gerald Stanley trial was wholly unsatisfactory. From the outside, an acquittal in the shooting death of the 22-year-old Cree man Colten Boushie...